There's an old folk thingy from Borneo that claims Orangs can, in fact, talk. But they don't, because if humans found out they'd be forced to get jobs and pay taxes.
Makes sense to me. If I got to spend my whole life chilling in the forest and some weird bald fuckers came and tried to make me work and pay taxes I'd do whatever needed to convince them I'm just another ape and continue to chill in the forest
This is like in Liu Cixin's 3BP when some human try to make the population more stupid in order to devolved from being an advance civilization to not get destroyed
There's an old folk thingy from Borneo that claims Orangs can, in fact, talk. But they don't, because if humans found out they'd be forced to get jobs and pay taxes.
Makes sense to me. If I got to spend my whole life chilling in the forest and some weird bald fuckers came and tried to make me work and pay taxes I'd do whatever needed to convince them I'm just another ape and continue to chill in the forest
Colonialism: "Why not both?"
And yet they put them to work gathering palm nuts for palm oil anyway
Based and Ankh-Morpork Unseen University librarian-pilled
This is like in Liu Cixin's 3BP when some human try to make the population more stupid in order to devolved from being an advance civilization to not get destroyed